Police & Fire: Shots fired

SPRINGFIELD - A 21-year-old Battle Creek man was arrested after Calhoun County Sheriff Department deputies said he fired a gun into the air.

Deputies said they were called at 4:34 p.m. Monday to the 400 block of North 25th Street for a man firing a long gun. The man fled from the area but was found by Battle Creek police in the 200 block of Grove Street.

City officers and deputies set a perimeter around the house and convinced the man to come out of the house. Deputies took custody of the man and he was taken to the county jail on a charge of reckless discharge of a firearm.

Two .12-gauge shotguns were found in the house and investigators said they also found recently fired ammunition. Deputies said a shotgun was fired at the Springfield address.

Contact Trace Christenson at 966-0685 or tchrist@battlecreekenquirer.com. Follow him on Twitter: @TSChristenson